Taanteatro Company
Taanteatro is a dance-theater company with international activity dedicated to the research and creation of original work in the performing arts. Taanteatro is headquartered in São Paulo, Brazil since its establishment in 1991 and is directed by Wolfgang Pannek and its founder, Maura Baiocchi. Taanteatro has created more than forty plays and choreographies based on the life and work of artists and poets like Frida Kahlo, Florbela Espanca, Lewis Carrol, Antonin Artaud, Lautréamont, Fernando Pessoa, Robert Walser, George Tabori, Hölderlin, Beckett, Shakespeare and Friedrich Nietzsche. The company also conceives performances inspired by experiences and narratives of company members. Most of its works are authorial creations.
The international press has described Taanteatro as an "important group of Brazilian artists who investigate the language of performing arts" and has pointed out the following qualities: "daring and innovative", "unique manner of developing texts and of studying physical action", "extreme care in creation and staging", "visual quality", "gestural refinement", "rigor and magnetism of the physical manifestation", "great work of performers" and "celebration of freedom and creativity".